Window sash construction



Jan. 2, 1934. F. PICKEL ET AL WINDOW SASH CONSTRUCTION Filed Jan. 27, 1952 2 SheetsSheetl 1 [red P10 MllldliW/ZPOE A TORNEY Jan. 2, 1934.

F. PICKEL El AL WINDOW SASH CONSTRUCTION Filed Jan. 27, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTORS geest ATTORNEY Patented Jan. 2, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE WINDOW SASH CONSTRUCTION Fred Pickel and William von Poelgeest, Hasbrouck Heights, N. J.

Application January 27,

7 Claims.

This invention relates to doublehung sliding sash windows and more specifically to means for permitting the sashes to be swung so that the street or outside of the glass panes are easily accessible from the room or inside for cleaning.

The usual type of sliding sash windows are difficult to clean properly, especially the street faces of the window panes, and when the-windows are a considerable distance from the ground it is necessary to sit on the window sill with the major portion of the body outside or to stand on the sill and depend on a safety belt to prevent falling. Frequently, the cleaning of windows is a womans task and quite a dangerous one.

It is therefore a major object of the invention to provide double hung sliding sash windows which are normally used in the usual way with means, when both windows are moved down, to swing both sashes into the room so the outersides of the panes may be cleaned from the room.

' Another object is to provide on such a window required fittings, some of which are removable, for accomplishing the swinging of the sashes and which do not interfere with their sliding range when in use.

The foregoing and other pertinent objects will hereafter appear and are attained by the novel and simple construction and arrangement of parts as hereinafter described and as disclosed in the accompanying drawings, which by way of example illustrate a preferred embodiment of the invention, and in which;

Fig. 1 is a front elevational view of the lower portion of a window as seen from the room side and constructed in accordance with the invention.

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same.

Fig. 3 shows in perspective, details of the hinging arrangement at the tops of the window sashes.

Fig. 4 is a sectional detail of the upper rail member of the inside window sash.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary elevational detail showing the lower pivot pin for the inside window sash in a retracted position.

Fig. 6 is a perspective detail of the rail plate of the upper part of the outside window sash.

Fig. 7 is a similar view of the pivot pin for the lower part of the outside window and sash.

Fig. 8 is a fragmentary detail of the securing means for the removable stop bead.

Describing the drawings in greater detail there is shown at 10 and 11 the jamb of a usual form of window sash frame having a sill 12. The jambs are formed with the usual boxes 13 receptive of 1932. Serial No. 589,125

sash weights 14 but in this instance one set of weights only are preferably used and as shown in Fig. 3, these weights are arranged on the side of the windows having the pivot fittings.

The jamb 10 is provided with a permanent metallic fitting 15 provided with a screw stud 16. The fitting 15 is flanged and receptive of a removable plate 17 having a hole to accommodate the screw stud 16 and provided with an extension having a hinge 18 for a yoke 19. A nut 20 may be used to secure the plate 1'7 as shown in Fig. 3.

The yoke 19 is provided with spaced pivot pins 21 and 22 of a suitable length. and is also provided with a hole 23 engageable over a bent hook-dike stud 24 carriedby the angle bracket 25 which is aflixed to the jamb 10.

The upper portion of the inside window sash A adjacent the jamb 10 is provided with a hinged rail member 26, which when in use has its hole 2'7 receptive of the pivot pin 21 (Fig. 3.). The hinged rail member 26 may be swung into the position shown in Fig. 1, when out of use.

The upper portion of the outside window sash B adjacent the jamb 10 is provided with a fixed trunnion plate 28 having a socket portion 29 receptive of the pivot pin 22 as shown in Fig. 3.

The lower portion of the inside window sash A adjacent the jarnb 10 is provided with a retractable pivot pin '30 slidaole in fitting 31 and operable by a handle 32. When placed in the position shown in Fig; 1, the bolt 30 spaces the bottom of the window sash A from the sill 12 and when retracted as shown in Fig. 5, the sash A may bottom on the sill 12.

' In alignment with the pivot pin 30, there is provided a socket member 33 in the sill 12 receptive of the pin 30 when in a projected posi-- tion.

The lower portion of the outside sash B adjacent the jamb 10 has affixed as shown in Fig. 2, a pivot pin as integral or rigid with a plate 35 similar to the rail plate 28 and in alignment with the pivot pin 34 there is provided a socket member 36 in the sill 12. When the outside sash B is slid down to the position shown in Fig. 2, the pivot pin 3 1 is adapted to enter the socket 36 and bottom therein.

The removable stop head 37 on the jamb 11 may have a pin and socket engagement as at 38 with the sill l2 and be provided at its upper end with a bifurcated metal plate 39 and the fixed strip 40 may have a metal plate 41 provided with a screw stud 42. The screw stud s2 is positioned in the bifurcation or" the plate 30 and a nut 43 is engageable with the screw stud 42 to 1;;

" attached to the window frame, the mentioned clamp and lock the stop bead into place as shown in Fig. 1.

Although not shown in the drawings, similar arrangements may be made for removably securing the parting strip 44 between the sashes A and B on the jamb 11.

When it is desired to have access to the outer sides of the window panes, the outside sash B is slid down to the position shown in Fig. 2 with the pivot pin 34 in the socket 36 and the sash A moved up as shown with the pivot pin 30 in he socket 33. The yoke 19 is hooked over the bent pin 24 and the plate 17 secured in place by the nut 20, with the pivot pins 21--22 entering respectively into the hole 27 and socket 29.

The nut 43 is removed to permit the removal of the strip 37 so the sash A may be swung on the pivot pins 21 and 30 and the strip 44 may be now removed so the sash B may be swung on the pivot pins 22 and 34. Returning the window to normal operation is quite apparent from the foregoing and as can readily be seen the fitting comprising the plate 1'7 and yoke 19 may then be used at other windows.

Although the foregoing description is in considerable detail, many changes in construction may be made without departing from the general broad scope of the invention and from the spirit and scope of the appended claims:

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. The combination with a sliding sash window, of pivot pins attached to the lower portions of each sash adjacent one side edge thereof, sockets set in the window sill to receive said pins, socket members attached to the upper portions of said sashes and in alignment with each of the mentioned pins, a hooked stud on the outer edge of the window frame adjacently above the sashes when lowered, and a yoke having a hole for removable engagement with the stud, said yoke having pins enterable into the last mentioned sockets.

2. The combination with a sliding sash window, of pivot pins attached to the lower portions of each sash adjacent one side edge thereof, one of said pins being retractable, sockets set in the window sill to receive said pins, socket members attached to the upper portions of said sashes and in alignment with each of the mentioned pins, one of said socket members being hinged to over lie the sash when not in operation and to swing to an extended horizontal position when in operation, a hook on the outer edge of the window frame adj acently above the sashes when lowered, and a yoke removably secured to said hook and having pins enterable into the last mentioned sockets.

3. In a sliding sash window, means to pivot the sashes comprising pivot pins attached to the lower portions of each sash enterable in sockets set in the window sill, one of said pins being vertically slidable and gravity actuated to operative position, means to retain said slidable pin in extended position, means to retain said slidable pin in retracted position, a yoke having projecting hinge pins, said yoke being hinged to a plate set at an angle thereto and adapted to be removably secured to the window frame, a retaining hook yoke having an aperture engageable with the retaining hook, and socket members attached to the upper portions of the sashes receptive of the projecting pins of the yoke.

i. The combination with a window having a pair of sashes slidably mounted therein, of a bracket fixed on the inner face of the inner sash at the lower corner adjacent one side edge, a pivot pin freely slidable in said bracket, means for positively retaining said pin in retracted position, means for positively retaining said pin in projected operative position, a pin fixed on the lower edge of the outer sash adjacent one side edge, sockets set in the window sill to receive the lower ends of said pins thereby to retain the sashes in a partially raised position, a perforate bracket fixed at the upper corners of each said sashes adjacent one side edge, with the perforations in axial alignment with the respective pivot pins, one of said brackets being swingable into and out of operative position, and a yoke having pins to be received in the said perforations of the upper brackets.

5. The combination with a window having a pair of sashes slidably mounted therein, of a bracket fixed on the inner face of the inner sash at the lower corner adjacent one side edge, a pivot pin freely slidable in said bracket, means for positively retaining said pin in retracted position, means for positively retaining said pin in projected operative position, a pin fixed on the lower edge of the outer sash adjacent one side edge, sockets set in the window sill to receive the lower ends of said pins thereby to retain the sashes in a partially raised position, a perforate bracket fixed at the upper corners of each said sashes adjacent one side edge, with the perforations in axial alignment with the respective pivot pins, the bracket on the inner sash being swingable horizontally into and out of operative position, a yoke having pins to be received in the said perforations of the upper brackets, and means for detachably engaging said yoke to the window frame.

6. The combination with a window having a pair of sashes slidably mounted therein, of a bracket fixed on the inner face of the inner sash at the lower corner adjacent one side edge, a pivot pin freely slidable in said bracket, means for positively retaining said pin in retracted position, means for positively retaining said pin in projected operative position, a pin fixed on the lower edge of the outer sash adjacent one side edge, sockets set in the window sill to receive the lower ends of said pins thereby to retain the sashes in a partially raised position, a perforate bracket fixed at the upper corners of each said sashes adjacent one side edge, with the perforations in axial alignment with the respective pivot pins, the bracket on the inner sash being swingable horizontally into and out of operative position, a yoke having pins to be received in the said perforations of the upper brackets, means for detachably engaging said yoke to the window frame, and means for clamping said yoke when extended across the inner surface of the frame adjacently above the window sashes.

'7. The combination with a window having a pair of sashes slidably mounted therein, of a bracket fixed on the inner face of the inner sash at the lower corner adjacent one side edge, a pivot pin freely slidable in said bracket, means for positively retaining said pin in retracted position, means for positively retaining said pin in projected operative position, a pin fixed on the lower edge of the outer sash adjacent one side edge, sockets set in the window sill to receive the lower ends of said pins thereby to retain the sashes in a partially raised position, a perbracket, a yoke having spaced-apart downwardly extending pivot pins engageable in the said perforations and having a hole for removable engagement over the stud, and means to anchor the inner end of the yoke to the window frame.

FRED PICKEL. WILLIAM VON POELGEEST. 

